We were at Venture Crew last night and missed Jeopardy. Thank you fro sharing the questions. We got all five, but my son was sad that there weren’t any knot questions. They were about knot uses. By the way, he didn’t need to learn splicing until the Pioneering merit badge which isn’t Eagle-required. Splicing is cool.

Exactly. The clove hitch is worthless if there’s any lateral pulling. Or if it slacks off. Which is why we use the Lark’s Head at the Ranch. The constrictor/boa/etc knots would work as well, but no scout actually learns any of those. And the Lark’s Head is much easier to teach to crews.

I have always used the clove hitch when securing the stick that rests against the carabiner when using the PCT method of hanging bear bags. Using this method I have never had an Adirondack Bear steal my grub.

Got all 5. Pretty good for an old Cub Scouter. Still do Roundtable for Cubs and this year did Day Camp. My youngest son is an Eagle and District Camping Chairman so maybe that helped. I thought they were too easy.

Five of Five… Life Scout from the 50’s, Order of the Arrow (national convention delegate), Cubmaster, Commissioner, Merit Badge counselor for a half dozen badges, and finally member of the adult leader wardroom for the Sea Scouts (and donor of two sailboats to the Sea Scouts)

I hate to be a party pooper but I also was misled on #4 and thought it was the “square knot” or the “joining” knot…join 2 ropes together, and I’m pretty sure that of all the leaders saying they got them all, the majority probably said the same answer then saw “splicing” and said “that makes sense” and now understands the answer and accepted it as correct. I could be wrong and I know lots of you will say so, but am I?

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